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Texas Open Bonspiel 2010
2 years ago
by integgroll
in Curling
Houston, Texas. Some 4 hours to get there, 4 hours to get back. And if it wasn’t for my brilliant detour through Pasedina it would have been even longer due to the traffic. Houston has by far the worst traffic that I have ever seen. Sorry guys, but it is pretty bad, especially compared to Dallas. And that doesn’t even cover the humidity. That is for a different day.
Queue the Texas Open Bonspiel! They have a nice bar up there in Houston, lots of seating, a nice large bar area, and of course most importantly, Shiner on tap.
By the time we got there, were checked in, and back to the club DFW’s first team was already playing. Which means it was time to get to know people, and cheer on the other DFWians.
Finally it was time for the team that I rode up with to play. I do not remember how they did, but I do remember making signs to cheer them on, although that could have been the next morning, we were quite busy having a good time, and not watching all of the curling.
As we halted the early morning partying and the day broke enough for the bar to open, we actually started watching and cheering on the games at hand. We watched a certain Houston team beat most of our teams game after game, it was starting to get demoralizing. The teams that weren’t eliminated by the Houston team were eliminated by our own teams, in what we viewed as poor bracketing, which in reality was probably just as random as it should have been, we just felt we were getting the shaft as everyone does. But on the upside it did come down to a D/FW Team versus the Houston team that was ravaging the bracket. In the end the D/FW team pulled it out, although the game was a very close one, and both teams did their best.
Overall I have to say, WONDERFUL first bonspiel to go to, even if we did get wait listed, and didn’t get to play. Thank you to Ice King for coming out and taking care of the ice! I would recommend it to anyone, even if you have to deal with the Houston weather the year that you decide to go. But next year it will be in Dallas. Texas Open Bonspiel Dallas, Texas 2011 Here we come.
Instructional League Week 3
2 years ago
by integgroll
in Curling
Holy cow the “Smokin’ Rocks” well… smoked us tonight. 7-2 we won one whole end, the first end. Then all down hill from there. But hey I was skipping tonight, and I think I learned a few things about the game that I didn’t know before. For example a very vague description of how to play “negative ice”.
Somehow when there is a fall on the ice, stone drifts that way even with the opposite turn, if you change the turn of the stone and have it go with the fall, the stone goes straighter. I don’t know exactly how it works, and for sure don’t understand the physics behind it. But I know it works, and I know that you need it on our arena ice.
Tonight at the bar after curling interesting things went down as well. I met a nice Canadian girl who happened to show up to the league that night, Krystal. And of course there was talk of the Texas Open Bonspiel, that is an open curling tournament in Texas for those of you not in the know. During the talk about the TOB, somehow a team was put together that consisted of Krystal, Steve, Chris, and myself. That is right three brand spanking new curlers, and one very seasoned curler going to a bonspiel!